R&D Senior Quality Specialist (Validation),

Job Opportunity At AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Support the qualification and requalification of equipment and instrumentation, including computerized systems, used within the R&D laboratory function associated with FDA Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) testing for biological and small molecule projects.
• Responsible for the planning, design and implementation of validation projects, coordination of validation activities, and preparation of validation documentation within Pharmaceutical Development, with established guidelines for pharmaceutical products manufactured in a GMP environment.
• Utilize knowledge of GMP concepts relating to Pharmaceutical manufacturing environment to plan, develop, organize, and execute validation activities applicable to area of technical expertise in accordance with GMP, ISO 9000, ICH, and applicable guidelines including project management, validation documentation generation, and project tracking.
• Maintain project deadlines and communicate validation activities with appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
• Define, author, organize, and review validation documentation, SOPs, and forms.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

Must possess a Bachelors in Engineering, Microbiology or Chemistry, or a related field, and at least 5 years of work experience performing GMP validation. Of experience required, must have 3 years of work experience:

1. Performing laboratory instrumentation validation, temperature mapping of environmental chambers, & sterilization validation (autoclaves);
2. Project coordination involving third-party validation vendor management;
3. Utilizing validation principles and techniques including validation of pharmaceutical processes, facilities/utilities, manufacturing & laboratory equipment; &
4. Applying GMP concepts relating to pharmaceutical manufacturing environment & validation activities.

Experience must be gained concurrently.

Additional Information

Salary Range: $124,920.26 - $157,500.00 per year

Apply online at careers.abbvie.com/en or send resume to Job.opportunity.abbvie@abbvie.com. Refer to Req ID: REF35111G.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. This job is eligible to participate in our short-term and long-term incentive programs.

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